Interviews by Amanda Baltazar

“I have an older-generation iPhone that’s always in my front pocket. Sometimes it’s easier to shoot the brushed aluminum back of the phone rather than pull my grey card out from my backpack. I’m told that people have started loading a neutral grey color into their iPhones (to photograph the screen), but I haven’t even gotten that far yet!”


“When ceilings are too high or too dark to bounce flash off of, I’m apt to use the stick system. I have a flash attached to the hotshoe of the camera and a pocket wizard attached to the bottom of the camera connected with a sync chord. My assistant holds an extended monopod with a secondary flash, connected to another pocket wizard. When the shutter button is released, the camera flash goes off, as well as the secondary flash on the monopod. I use this to light backgrounds, put hair rims on subjects, and add dimension and layers to otherwise dark rooms.”